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joints, and oval-lance-shaped leaves 

 with coarsely toothed edges. The 

 rosy or white flowers are in whorls 

 just above the pairs of leaves. 0. 

 speciosa, by some regarded as a 

 form of 0. tetrahit, has larger yellow 

 flowers blotched with purple. 



Hems worth. Parish and village 

 of Yorkshire (WR.), England. It 

 is 8 m. S.E. of Waken" eld on the 

 G.N. and G.C. joint railway. Stone 

 quarrying and mining are the chief 

 industries. There is an old church 

 dedicated to S. Helen, while the 

 hospital and the free grammar 

 school were both founded by 

 Robert Holgate, archbishop of 

 York, in the 16th century. Hems- 

 worth Hall was the seat of Sir 

 Charles Wood, afterwards Viscount 

 Halifax. It gives its name to a co. 

 division returning one member to 

 Parliament. Pop. 10,000. 



Henbane (Hyoscyamus niyer). 

 Biennial herb of the natural order 

 Solanaceae. It is a native of 

 ^^^^^^^^^ Europe N. 

 Africa, and N. 

 and W. Asia. 

 The leaves are 

 I . oval, lobed or 

 toothed, the 

 upper ones 

 clasping the 

 stem ; the flow- 

 ers are large, 

 funnel -shaped, 

 and dull yellow, 

 veined with 

 purple. The 

 fruit is a many- 

 sided capsule 

 with a distinct 

 lid. 



The dried 

 leaves are used 

 in medicine. The active principles 

 are poisonous alkaloids called hyos- 

 cyamineand hyoscine. Preparations 

 of hyoscyamus are used chiefly with 

 purgatives todiminish griping. They 

 are also given to relieve spasms of 

 the bladder associated with cystitis 

 or inflammation of the prostate 

 gland. Hyoscine is sometimes 

 known as scopolamine, and is occa- 

 sionally employed as a sedative in 

 acute mania. In conjunction with 

 morphine it has been used in recent 

 years to diminish the pains of 

 labour, producing the condition 

 popularly known as twilight sleep. 

 For this purpose the drug should 

 only be used by skilled hands, and 

 the patient should be continuously 

 under observation. See Corolla. 



Henderson. City of Kentucky, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Henderson 

 co. It stands on the Ohio river, 

 74 m. N. of Hopkinsville, on the 

 Louisville and Nashville and other 

 rlys. A massive steel bridge spans 

 the Ohio, and the city's buildings in- 

 clude a public library, a high school. 



Henbane, a medi- 

 cinal herb 



Alex. Henderson, 

 Scottish divine 



and a sanatorium. Atkinson Park 

 is a fine open space of nearly 100 

 acres. Henderson is a busy river 

 port, shipping corn, wheat, tobacco, 

 and fruit, and has cotton and wool- 

 len mills, tobacco, furniture, and 

 box factories, saw-mills, grain ele- 

 vators and wagon works, and coal 

 mines. First incorporated in 1797, 

 it now has a mayor and council. 

 Pop. 12,312. 



Henderson, ALEXANDER (1583- 

 1646). Scottish divine. Born at 

 Criech, Fifeshire, he was educated 

 at St. Andrews, 

 where he be- 

 came professor 

 of rhetoric and 

 p h i 1 osophy. 

 He was ap- 

 pointed to the 

 incumbency of 

 Leuchars, but 

 soon after- 

 wards became 

 aPresbyterian, 



from an engraving & n ft strongly 



opposed the attempt to introduce 

 a liturgy. In 1638 he was moder- 

 ator to the general assembly, and 

 in 1639 minister of High Kirk, 

 Edinburgh. In 1641 he was made 

 chaplain to Charles I in Scotland. 

 He drafted the Solemn League and 

 Covenant, and is regarded, after 

 Knox, as the founder of the Re- 

 formed Church of Scotland. He 

 died at Edinburgh, Aug. 16, 1646. 



Henderson, ARTHUR (b. J863) 

 British politician. Born in Glas- 

 gow, he was apprenticed as a 

 moulder in the 

 works of Ro- 

 bert Stephen- 

 son & Co., at 

 N e wcastle. 

 Here he came 

 in touch with 

 the trade union 

 movement, 

 and was soon 

 made an official 

 of his society. 

 As a labour 

 member he was elected to the city 

 council of Newcastle, and later to 

 that of Darlington, of which town 

 he was mayor in 1903. Having 

 left his engineering work, he de- 

 voted all his time to his duties as 

 a trade union official. In 1895 

 his name had been put forward as 

 a candidate for Newcastle, but it 

 was not until 1903 that he se- 

 cured a seat at Barnard Castle 

 by-election. In 1908 he was 

 chosen chairman of the parlia- 

 mentary labour party, a post he 

 filled between 1914-17. 



In May, 1915, Henderson joined 

 the Coalition ministry, taking the 

 post of president of the board of 

 education, and in Dec., 1916, he 

 entered Lloyd George's minis- 



Arthur Henderson, 

 British politician 



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try as Labour's representative, 

 being minister without portfolio. 

 In 1917 he visited Russia, and on 

 his return differences of opinion 

 arose between him and Lloyd 

 George, mainly over the question 

 of attendance at the international 

 Socialist conference at Stockholm, 

 the result being Henderson's re- 

 signation in August. Throughout 

 this period he had retained his 

 post as secretary of the Labour 

 Party, and the clash between the 

 two positions was really the cause 

 of the trouble. In 1915 he was 

 made a privy councillor. In 1918, 

 at the general election, Henderson 

 lost his seat, but in Sept., 1919, 

 he was elected Labour M.P. tor 

 Widnes, and in Jan., 1923, for New- 

 castle East. In 1925 he was chosen 

 chief labour whip. In Jan-Nov., 

 1924, he was home secretary. 



Henderson, SIR DAVID (1862- 

 1921). British soldier. Born in 

 Glasgow, Aug. 11, 1862, he joined 

 the Argyll and 

 S utherland 

 Highlanders in 

 1883. He saw 

 service in the 

 Sudan, 1898, 

 and in South 

 Africa, becom- 

 ing director of 

 the intelligence 

 dept., 1900. 

 He graduated 

 as an air pilot 

 in Aug., 1911. In July, 1912, he 

 was appointed director of military 

 training, and in 1913 became 

 director-general of military aero- 

 nautics. The efficiency of the 

 three or four squadrons which went 

 to France on the outbreak of the 

 Great War, and the subsequent 

 development of the air arm, were 

 largely due to Henderson. In 

 Oct., 1917, he vacated his seat on 

 the Army Council to undertake 

 special work, and resigned the 

 vice-presidency of the air council 

 in the spring of 1918. He became 

 director-general of the League of 

 Red Cross Societies, Geneva, in 

 1919. He received his knighthood 

 in 1914. He died at Geneva, 

 Aug. 17, 1921. 



Henderson, GEORGE FRAJSCIS 

 ROBERT (1854-1903). British sol- 

 dier and historian. Born at St. 

 Helier, Jersey, June 2, 1854, the 

 son of a schoolmaster, he was edu- 

 cated at Leeds Grammar School 

 and S. John's College, Oxford. He 

 went thence to Sandhurst, and in 

 1878 entered the army, York and 

 Lancaster Regiment. In 1882 he 

 served in Egypt, distinguishing 

 himself at Tel - el - Kebir. The 

 succeeding years were mainly de- 

 voted to the study of military 

 history, and in 1889 appeared The 



Sir David Henderson. 

 British soldier 



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